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Posted by: Maedhros777
By the way, for anyone who read the books, does anyone think that the Arbiter looks a great deal how the Pak Protectors were described?
Not really, as Pack Protectors are humanoid in build, they don't have reverse-articulate-knees, they have a beak like mouth, and their gaunt, not built like a body builder or Elite, with much larger joints to allow for greater range of motion and more powerful movement.
That and the second heart in the groin area...
But then we don't know that Elites don't have a second heart down there.
And I personally don't really see too much of a similarity between Halo and Ringworld. Halo is obviously much smaller, does not rely on it's spin for gravity, and is a weapon before anything else.
Though I do wonder at the relative level of technology between the Pak Protectors and the Forruners...the Pak Protectors wiped themselves out on their homeworld in a nuclear war, leaving mankind, the "dumb breeder" stage of Pak development alone on their colony on Earth, and elsewhere I believe. We then developed on our own, but unlike in Halo, men did not discover faster than light technology in the Ringworld universe, it was given to them by another race in exchange for trade rights or a planet or something.
I wonder how much either the Pak or the Puppeteers influenced Bungie's idea behind the Forruners.